Strategies for avoiding preference profiling in agent-based e-commerce environments

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 127-142

  Serrano, Emilio ^a   Such, Jose M ^b   Botía, Juan A ^c   García Fornes, Ana ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent based e commerce; Data mining; Interaction analysis; Preference profiling; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894901592     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-013-0448-2     Document Type: Article

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